His Address to the Trans-Volta Togoland Council ... 1954. Britannica academic edition online, Mar. 27, 2014 (Kwame Nkrumah; b. Sep. 21, 1909, Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana); d. Apr. 27, 1972, Bucharest, Romania; headed Ghana from its independence in 1957 until overthrown by a coup in 1966; prime minister Mar. 1957, became president in 1960 when Ghana became a republic under a new constitution; focused much of his energy on campaigning for political unity of Africa, as economic conditions worsened in Ghana; after 1966 coup he found asylum in Guinea)